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Economy Social

Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Labour Force Status, Age And Sex

Data from Jan 1991 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 23 Mar 2026, 16:43 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a214d535743d69b51e95d2a4e6f3630e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Labour Force Status, Age And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 11, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a214d535743d69b51e95d2a4e6f3630e/view

About this dataset

Contact

brian_pang@mom.gov.sg ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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Economy Social

Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Labour Force Status, Age And Sex

Data from Jan 1991 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 23 Mar 2026, 16:43 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

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Data explorer

ResidentsAged15YearsandOverbyLabourForceStatusAgeAndSex.csv (768 rows, 31.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Labour Force Numeric	Employed Numeric	Unemployed Numeric	Outside Labour Force Numeric
(Null)0.0% 19913.1% 19923.1% 19933.1% 19943.1%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% 15-198.3% 20-248.3% 25-298.3% 30-348.3%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 02.9% 1002.9% 2002.5% 39002.6%	(Null)0.0%
1991	male	15-19	36900	35700	1300	86000
1991	male	20-24	99400	96400	3000	21500
1991	male	25-29	134500	131000	3500	4300
1991	male	30-34	143300	140800	2500	1800
1991	male	35-39	131000	129100	1900	1200
1991	male	40-44	110200	108400	1900	1700
1991	male	45-49	64100	63100	1000	2300
1991	male	50-54	63100	61700	1400	5200
1991	male	55-59	38200	37800	400	15800
1991	male	60-64	21300	21000	300	24200

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Labour Force	labour_force	Numeric	-	-
Employed	employed	Numeric	-	-
Unemployed	unemployed	Numeric	-	-
Outside Labour Force	outside_labour_force	Numeric	-	-

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